Squire v. State

At the trial of petitioner John Henry Squire in the Criminal Court of Baltimore on charges of assault with intent to murder and unlawful use of a handgun, the trial judge, without objection, instructed the jury that: On appeal, the Court of Special Appeals, exercising the discretion it possesses under Maryland Rule 756 g, declined to take cognizance of error in this instruction; accordingly, it affirmed the trial court’s judgment of conviction and sentence. Squire v. State, 32 Md. App. 307, 360 A. 2d 443 (1976). That court, while recognizing that the record discloses there ^ was sufficient…